2 Pesetas Almuradiel

Almuradiel is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican zone's supply of small coins dried up almost entirely after 1936. These locally-printed billetes de necesidad were never legal tender beyond the issuing municipality's boundaries — often, in practice, not even that far.

Tipografía Minerva was based in nearby Manzanares, the regional printing center for several such emissions across La Mancha. The Gari Montaner catalogue number 149-E indicates a variant within the Almuradiel series, suggesting at least minor distinguishing characteristics between issues.